How to Survive The First 100 Days After SHTF

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[olmcmonnie]

I dream of a mutual assistance group, but I don't trust any of my neighbors.

[Haireforce]

I suggest everybody get a small cheap drone with a camera just to pop up in the air to survey the surroundings before you venture out.

[ryimscaith]

I'm done prepping. I'm set to start from the ground up and homestead. Either at my current location, or anywhere I travel. Best of all, I'm not alone. Currently 57 in my group. Not including children under 10. Everything from farmers, to manufacturers, to surgeons. Gear is all well and good, and planning is paramount, but skills and people you trust are invaluable.

BTW: When I say I'm "Done", that doesn't mean I don't continuously update and replan. Just that I don't need to go get anything. Never stop planing, and never stop learning.

[megandow]

My neighbors and I have come together to create a neighborhood watch, and it’s turned into helping each other more than we expected! I would recommend starting now to build those relationships.

[belladrapeau]

also if you have dogs and you let them out for bathroom bussiness check your yard before letting them out for poison ect my friend had his dog poisoned and a week later someone broke into his house and stole things please protect them they are family as well thank you ❤

[stackya]

This is a video that should be updated every 7-8 months. People need to be reminded. This is the content I like to see shared. No "news" or hypotheticals. Cheers Kris

[klayvonisme]

“Apart from the items you’ve stored up, your significant assets will be the knowledge and skills that you can bring to your community.”
This is a brilliant closing statement to close this incredibly informative message. Thank you again for your excellent level headed, highly integral presentation.

[toddgarten]

My bugout is in the mountains where my family has been since the beginning of the nation. Living in Florida for the past 20 yrs. through storm evacuations, I have experienced how fast desperation develops. It happens in hours, not days. For me, prepping is like going back to the "old ways" during a collapse. The small farms and people have really never quit bartering in the hills. Trust is earned in the countryside, family names are recognized. I feel fortunate to be raised in a community that can survive and protect without any help from others.

[janking]

As a multi period reenactor I take this very seriously. History repeats again and again.

[islandborn]

Grateful i happened to be born on the Gulf Coast sometimes, been through 20+ major hurricanes where everything was destroyed. Rocket stove. Always have 6 months of rice and beans in Mylar w oa's. Firearms and ammo plenty. Water stored in drums always. Knowing you can survive comfortably with no assistance for 2 months makes you not really worry abt stuff the way others do. Stay safe everyone

[TRAPSQUAD]

Hope all is well with everyone prep, prep, prep, the test that’s to come ahead will push us all to the very breaking point

[robintaylor]

Unfortunately some of us don't have neighbors we trust. Its pretty much you are on your own.

[juice_man]

When Covid first happened, I had a conversation with a few neighbors about posting guards on our cul de sac. They actually brought it up. I think most people would be surprised how many people are either preppers or wouldn’t be opposed to the idea. Yea there’s a lot who are, but I think now a lot aren’t but they don’t know where to start or don’t want to for fear of being ridiculed. Better to have those conversations now before something goes down than to try and wing it when it happens

[chupacabra]

Ah, I definitely need to organize my preps with labels we had a power outage in Denver before we moved and I was all stoked to test my preps only to find that I couldn’t find which bin had all my flashlights and batteries! 😂 when I found it I turned on the flashlight happily!… and the power came back on 😅 time to run my label maker!

[MynewTennesseeHome]

I don't delude myself into thinking I'm ready for anything but after 40+ yrs of bush crafting, survival, homesteading, and arms experience I think I have a good shot of surviving a long term event... until my age brings me down.
If the proverbial $hit hits the fan happens there "preparing" phase is over and you are what you are.

[krysium]

Fiest renters moved into our farmhouse next door, I let my folks live there for 13 years then renovated it

4 horses, a bobcat excavator, and cattle! Good neighbors to have!

[oaksparoakspar]

The WROL stage ripples - as city folk are the most dense, the soonest depleted, and thus the first to turn desperate while suburbanites often have enough food to live for weeks without being empty and longer in rural areas. Ask yourself how often people in that region buy groceries minus how many days they eat out between grocery trips. Then, add 50-100% to that for all those things in their pantries, fridges, and freezers that they COULD eat but won't normally eat. The further out you are, the longer you can plan to hole up safe and quiet without concern will be

Somewhere, people will turn nomadic. The hunter/gatherer instinct rises in the face of fear, desperation, and the lack of local supplies. Some will load up and get out early, some will not leave until they have to. Regardless, there will be a continual migration of increasingly desperate refugees working their way ever outward from urban centers. Some will pass through. Some will seek to take advantage. Some will just be desperate and dangerous. Obviously, attrition will be continually reducing these numbers - particularly of those who don't have a known location to go to. This is going to be incredibly dangerous specifically because it will not be incredibly obvious how dangerous it is. The further out you are, the safer you are. That is not just from the centers, but also from the major transportation routes out of those areas.

The late stage is going to the beginning of the great starvation. There will still be far more people than the carrying capacity of the land can hope. They will be tearing down everything in the search for supplies. Fires will be common. Animals (livestock, wildlife, pets, etc) will be hunted to near extinction. Gardens, crops, and the like will be destroyed by those looking for anything resembling food to fill their guts with. Surviving this stage is best done by not being known - as your neighbors will likely either be with you or be gone - and going out of your way to make your area harder to reach is time well spent. Spraypaint and some plywood or sheet metal can go a long ways towards diverting people away from your area. Give them directions to places where help would be likely to station in multiple directions and aim them FROM your general direction in multiple ways.

I'm on a dead end road off of a long country road that does connect on either end with other roads - with it connecting to a rural highway closer to me. By putting that sign on the country road at the intersection with the highway with a note about the Elementary school to the south 2.1 miles away and the county hospital to the north 7.2 miles away as if it was there to help people leaving from my direction, anyone going up or down the highway who sees it will see a reason to stay on the highway in the hope that the one of those two spots they were already heading towards is still worth visiting as opposed to the one they had already passed (and both would be local centers in the early days of a crisis, so neither would show the sign to be BS, merely outdated if the place was empty and pillaged).

That said, starvation does not end at 100 days. Depending on the time of year, you might have several hundreds of days before you can even hope to put in real crops. The local wildlife will be utterly decimated and will take years to return to normalcy - if it ever does given higher rates of hunting from anyone who does survive. There will be people who do have enough to go 3 months, 4 months, etc - but will eventually run out without resupply and those people are likely to be armed, aware, and looking for food in a world already stripped by starving human locusts.

This is why when you are thinking of your food preps, you really do need to thing DEEP about them. What happens if things go bad and you have hundreds of days before your first real crops come in? What if your first year crops fail due to weather, theft, etc? Do you have enough to supplement a bad year 3 years in or deal with illness or injury 6 years in. Does your resupply contain ways to resupply the preps as well (do you have plans to grow wheat, beans, rice, etc?).

[thevanshe]

Realistically, after the last three years, i think a good portion of people started gardens, got chickens, and started storing food. It happened in my area anyways.

[tufnekbacon]

Im glad i live in Alaska.
We are two & a half times bigger than Texas. We have less than a million residents. We have more bodies of water than the entire USA combined.not counting our rivers, streams & glaciers.
The amount of wild life (food) is amazing.
Good luck to all those who prep if the time comes to servive!

[pedrohoracioaguilardiaz]

All you are saying applies to Acapulco Mexico, there is not enough water nor food. There is some vigilance by the army during the day. At night there are huge areas with out the rule of law. Situations like Maui, Gaza and Acapulco are not infrequent. Keep on prepping. Thank you.